Digg continues to increase its traffic at an impressive rate, and is clearly set to overtake Slashdot within a month or so (thanks for the link Brian).
The image, from one year traffic trend, shows Digg nearing Slashdot traffic levels after less than a year after launch. Slashdot is red, Digg is blue.
Digg allows anyone to submit news stories, and other users vote on how important the news is. More popular stuff moves to the top of the site, eventually gaining front page promotion.
It thas recently raised funding and saw traffic spike even more as publicity about the site spread from hard core net news junkies to mainstream internet users.
isn’t alexa only counting windows and internet explorer? and isn’t the typical slashdot user everything else?
Bleed is right… this is misleading even if the general trend is correct. The question is how similar or dissimilar the digg userbase is to the slashdot one. If they’re nearly identical, then the proportions are right.
Otherwise, it’ll be wrong. By the way, I wish people wouldn’t use the alexa numbers so authoritatively… their methodology isn’t as reliable as, say ComScore or mediametrix or whatever. They require you to download something which is an odd way of self-selecting a group…
Bleed..don’t bleed so much. Digg users mostly use Firefox too.
I would think that Digg has a similar percentage of non-IE and windows users (tons of Mac fanatics). Although I do think that Digg has the potential to become much more mainstream than Slashdot and as that happens, the user base will likely shift more to a higher percentage of IE people.
The Digg guys have a great Podcast - very creative, involves beer drinking.
I’m an ancient member of slashdot, and relativly new on digg, but I suspect that a larger number then people assume on slashdot really use windows.
Just most of them would never install the alexa programs on their systems.
The demographic of Digg right now is more technical/nerd/geek then slashdot which is slowly draining down to the trolls. I don’t actually read the comments anymore, just catch some tech stories, and more often these days they are duuplicates of other sites I browse.
Digg is the wave of the future, but can they keep up the growth?
But now there are many spamming sites coming up on it . many guys just link to the posts they have on their blog
.
Just the way you spammed this site now.
Excellent strategy for slashdotting and digging yourself at the same time, Mike.
Agreed to Sreejith. many spamming blog..
Maybe that is why digg is a fast growing… =P
Manual trackback: http://tinfinger.blogspot.com/.....-hits.html
Well, is it really a surprise? Slashdot has become lazy and complaints/requests from users have been falling on deaf ears for a long time. Digg is much more user driven.
Actually, Netcraft lists Digg’s traffic as being much higher than Slashdot:
http://schlerplotti.typepad.co.....gger_.html
Joe Smith–you (and the blog you linked) are wrong.
Read the comment I posted at that blog post you linked.
I’ve been watching Digg for some time. I’ve never really
understood how it differs from the “most popular” news lists already
out there.
What do you see as the major differences between Yahoo Most Popular Technology News and Digg’s front page?
It seems to me that both just show the generally most popular
technology stories. Is there something I’m missing that makes Digg work
better?
Another upcoming site watch is 180° news. Like Digg readers vote up the stories, but the stories are fulled from top news sites like CNN, etc. With a touch of Ajax the site is a pleasure to visit.
9/10/2006 8:34:57 AM
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